"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Recreation and Sports "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Recreation and Sports
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Recreation and Sports "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Recreation and Sports
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Recreation and Sports "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Recreation and Sports "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Recreation and Sports
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Recreation and Sports Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Recreation and Sports
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Recreation and Sports
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Recreation and Sports
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Recreation and Sports Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Recreation and Sports "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
